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Industry 4.0: How to Optimize Your Manufacturing Revenue
Every year, new technologies emerge that alter the way firms do business, manage their employees, and interact with customers. The pandemic brought many of these changes to bear far sooner than many people in the industry expected and keeping up with the pace has been difficult.
A Guide to PLM for Manufacturers
If you want to build something that lasts, you need a strong foundation. The same rule applies to building a business. For manufacturers, this means creating a holistic process from the jump that can track every product throughout its lifecycle — from the first inklings of design to how it will eventually be retired. This process is commonly referred to as product lifecycle management (PLM), and it’s a cornerstone of data management for the manufacturing field.
Greater Ransomware Protection Using Data Isolation and Air Gap Technologies
. Two proven techniques for reducing the attack surface on your data are data isolation and air gapping. Hitachi Vantara and Commvault deliver this kind of protection with the combination of Hitachi Data Protection Suite (HDPS) and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) which includes several layers and tools to protect and restore your data and applications from the edge of your business to the core data centers.
The World’s Fastest Ransomware Recovery From Immutable Snapshots For VMware Environments
Be prepared against ransomware threats by leveraging Hitachi Ops Center Protector for VMware Environments
The Long Road Ahead to Ransomware Preparedness
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., guides our customers from what’s now to what’s next by solving their digital challenges. Working alongside each customer, we apply our unmatched industrial and digital capabilities to their data and applications to benefit both business and society.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E Series: Capacity Without Compromise
In a world where microseconds matter, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E series supercharges performance for business applications, while also meeting data efficiency needs with a simple-to-manage platform.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Everbridge CEM Platform
Threats to the modern organization are growing, and they come from all sides, from severe weather and wildfires to civil unrest, terrorism, and even global pandemics. Everbridge helps security teams cut through the noise to quickly identify, assess and address those threats in order to safeguard company assets and employees.
Transform Your Network with Advanced Load Balancing from VMware
Learn why It’s time for your organizations to move from appliance-based hardware or virtual load balancers to 100% software load balancing.
The sun rises The role and opportunities of B2B marketplaces in a post-Covid world
In line with the trends and developments we identified in our previous studies, The spring of B2B marketplaces (2017), B2B marketplaces are blossoming (2018), and The summer of B2B marketplaces (2020), B2B marketplaces have kept growing.
The World of Work is Changing: Will You Evolve or Be Left Behind?
Download this eBook to learn how to embrace uncertainty, break through the status quo, and evolve in today’s rapidly changing markets. Partner with Planview on your journey to increased agility and flexibility, no matter how your teams work.
5 traits of wildly successful tech companies you can adopt today
Today’s top technology companies shine with what Forbes calls an “innovation premium” – additional value they generate in the stock market solely because of their reputation for disruption.
CFO 3.0 – Digital Transformation Beyond Financial Management
The finance function is evolving. Discover how trailblazing finance leaders are driving a digital-first agenda.
Guidelines for maintaining business continuity for your organization
This white paper presents a complete approach to keep people productive during planned or unplanned disruptions, including best practices for a complete business continuity strategy as well as technologies to provide secure access to apps and data on any device, over any network or cloud. By ensuring seamless operations no matter what happens, Citrix Workspace solutions help protect your business from consequences such as financial losses, damaged reputation, weakened customer and partner relationships, and lost productivity.
A digital foundation for Architecture, Engineering and Construction collaboration.
Download our eBook and get answers to key questions that will help you build efficiency and security to deploy one collaboration tool to power seamless site-to-HQ working.
5 WAYS LEADING BRANDS ARE DRIVING DIGITAL EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION
The big challenge for many brands is the complexity and scale of modern digital interactions, and the vast amount of data that comes with it. How can they build an understanding of the complicated and unpredictable ways in which customers behave? How do they move from data-to-insight, and then insight-to-action quickly, and at scale, to meet customer expectations? The good news is that most organizations are suffering very similar issues when transforming their digital experiences. In this guide, you’ll read about 5 ways some of the world’s biggest brands are using experience analytics - and the unique behavioral insights that come with it - to overcome the challenges they are facing.
WORK DIFFERENT SUCCESS KIT: How to rethink and reinvent market research
Hear from thought leaders and researchers at Chobani, Uber Eats, and Pinterest, as well as our own research experts on the lessons learned from 2020 so far, and what you need to do to reinvent and rethink your research programs for the new norm.
5 Ways to Boost IT Efficiency with Intelligent Storage and Robotic Process Automation
Too many IT resources are being spent manually responding to storage problems and routine maintenance that, if left unchecked, could lead to downtime or data loss. Fortunately, a new class of intelligent storage with autonomous capability, combined with robotic process automation (RPA), can hyper-automate storage management, using software automation to perform tasks faster and more accurately. Read this white paper to explore five key benefits of deploying intelligent storage and RPA to optimize data center efficiency.
Scaling UX impact in a digital-first world
In this guide, Lada Gorlenko, Director of Experience Research at Smartsheet, and Lauren Palmer, Director of UX Research at Google, share their tips on how to enable UX teams to deliver breakthrough experiences at scale.
The 4 Actions of High-Growth Marketing Teams: 2021 Planning, Budgeting, and Measurement Benchmarks
Marketing's crusade to measure revenue impact has been ongoing for the last 20 years. However, as we head into the 2020's, the playing field has changed. Read the report and learn how to establish your marketing team as a growth driver
Driving Digital Transformation And Business Value With ServiceNow: Transforming Your Operational Productivity Using The Now Platform
ServiceNow commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential business benefits enterprises may realize by deploying ServiceNow to catalyze digital business transformation.
How to Fuel Ad Sales with Your Tech Stack
In order to meet the expectations of advertisers in this digital-first age, news organizations must fine-tune their underlying sales engines – especially as they expand their product portfolios to include events, social media, branded content and more cross-channel offerings. This paper will examine how publishers and media can leverage end-to-end solutions to excel in the modern marketplace
8 Organic App Growth Strategies in the Age of COVID
In this whitepaper, Branch co-founder Mada Seghete brings you 8 tips to grow your app without breaking the bank.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of Moxie Kbot: Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By Contextual Guidance
Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential ROI enterprises may realize by deploying Kbot. The results: A quantifiable benefit of over $9M over 3 years.
Digital Twins and Immersive Technologies in the Energy Industry
The energy industry is faced with a tumultuous landscape of challenges that include rising costs and increased market volatility. In this white paper, you will learn how real-time 3D technology can enable this optimization at all stages within the energy industry.
Defining A Successful AI Project
How should organizations choose their AI projects? Should it be a trendy, consumer-facing solution such as a chatbot, virtual assistant, or computer vision application? Or is it better to focus on embedded, back-of-the-house projects that quietly help to improve internal operations, employee efficiency, or decision-making? This ebook has answers.
Transforming IT Operations To Enable Better Business Outcomes
Read this ESG whitepaper to know how improving operational efficiency is the most important objective IT expects to accomplish from their organizations’ investments in the area of AI/ ML.
Why Enterprises Need Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI Platforms
Enabling Enterprise AI Enterprise AI is at peak hype, yet AI has yet to fundamentally change most businesses. For the most part, those that have been successful have democratized the use of data throughout the organization. But how can everyone else catch up? Enter: data science, machine learning, and AI platforms.
Empowering the CI/CD process with optimized logging
Logging acts like the eyes of an organization, but the insights offered by logging is only effective when it's optimized with the best practices outlined in this eBook
Connect Sales and Service Around the Customer
Read this white paper to understand the significance of bridging the gap between the sales and service systems. And by doing so how you can take the customer experience to the next level – boosting customer loyalty and revenue growth.
The Strategic Intelligent Automation Index: How Boards are Shaping Future Organisational Models Around a Digital Workforce.
In this report, we share our analysis of FTSE 350 organizations annual reports and highlight the increased use of automation, cloud and AI.
RESPONDING TO EXTREME CHANGE: THE FOUR PILLARS OF OPERATIONAL AGILITY
In this guide, you’ll find out what to look for in a Digital Workforce that is built to scale and discover where to focus your attention as you start to scale your deployment.
7 Things FERC Filers Should Know About XBRL Reporting
See a quick guide that explains what the XBRL format is, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's XBRL mandate, and what energy companies and utilities …
2021 CIO Agenda: Seize This Opportunity for Digital Business Acceleration
Discover the four key activities that will help you accelerate digital business in 2021 and beyond.
9 Best Practices for Preconstruction Success
Here are nine tips for the best pre-construction practice, to minimize mistakes, improve performance and avoid those wobbly bridges.
The ultimate guide to building a world-class brand tracker
What you will learn from this eBook - How to create a tracker to reflect the real world It’s easy to create a tracker with inherent biases. Learn how to design a tracker that minimizes biases and helps you keep a pulse on market changes. - How to go from brand tracking to action Done right, brand tracking is more than a measure or a metric – it’s a tool of action. See how to build your brand tracker to give you the right data on your priorities. - How to ask the right questions to the right people For a tracker to be effective, you need the right data. Learn best practices of how to ask the right questions to get the right insights.
Contact Center 2.0: The Rise of Collaborative Contact Centers
How digital transformation is making contact centers unified, collaborative, and intelligent In this report from Altimeter, a Prophet Company, Brian Solis shares his insights on the transformation of contact centers in today’s digital workplace. Contact Center 1.0 was designed and deployed at scale in the 1960s, and the models and standards that defined them are still alive and well today. In his report, Brian introduces Contact Center 2.0—an integrated approach to unified communications that enables business experts and contact center agents to work in harmony to deliver modern, real-time customer experiences.
RETHINK FOR RESULTS: Driving Change Through Content-Driven Digital Transformation
We’ve sponsored research by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to examine how LOB leaders create business value by digitally transforming their processes. Through deep interviews with companies in the midst of driving transformation, this white paper will share these leaders’ secrets of how they created tangible business impacts and helped their companies grow.
Wake-Up Call: Digitally Transform Your Pharma Supply Network NOW
Explore the critical capabilities needed to achieve greater agility in the pharma supply chain—and learn how multienterprise work management can help you achieve new levels of supplier collaboration, so you can improve product quality, reduce disruptions, drive down costs, and improve on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance
A Maturity Model for Global Statutory Reporting
How advanced is your global statutory reporting cycle? Use this maturity model to assess current capabilities and conceptualise the stages along the way to getting to the ideal state.
Say Goodbye to Downtime : Keep your SAP services up and running with SUSE
Digital transformation initiatives put pressure on your IT organization to adapt to requirements for delivering innovative new services that are reliable and secure. As a result, you are under constant pressure to provide continual uptime in the data center to meet growing customer demand and stay competitive.
Planning Deconstructed: 5 Types of Planning Crucial to Delivering on Strategy with a Dynamic and Continuous Approach
The purpose of this paper is to outline different planning types and what a more continuous and agile approach to planning looks like. Assess your capabilities across each type and determine your organization’s maturity level. You’ll understand what it takes to create plans that enable you to continuously connect strategy to delivery.
What's the State of Global Statutory Reporting?
Follow these tips to improve your global statutory reporting process: 1) Move away from traditional word processing spreadsheets and shift to a secure cloud reporting platform. 2) Centralize your entity reporting process to enable consistency, increase oversight, and improve team collaboration. 3) Save time by connecting data from your system of record directly to your system of work. 4) Connect your data, numbers, and narrative to ensure they are always up to date throughout financial statements and disclosures across different entities. 5) Have a smooth audit process by using a connected platform that makes record-keeping transparent and accurate.
The Essential Guide to Modern Data Management: Protect, Consolidate, and Put Your Data to Work in the Multicloud Era
Download the guide to learn how to take control of your data, build data resilience and compliance, and help your IT team become more productive to your business outcomes.
The Top 7 C ompliance Risks And How to Avoid Them
Download Paycor’s new whitepaper to learn the current best practices on keeping your company safe from the most pressing compliance risks of the day.
PAYCOR HR LEADERS SURVEY: The State of American Business: 2021
Paycor surveyed more than 2,000 HR and Finance leaders about their plans for the new year. Download our newest report to find out what they said.
Find Your Edge: Create value by harnessing data at the point of creation
Business priorities drive IT priorities. And IT capabilities underpin business capabilities, which either limit or expand future priorities in an endless cycle. Whether that cycle is virtuous or vicious depends on how closely IT and business priorities are aligned. With data increasingly coming from outside the core data center, harnessing all that information will require stretching your imagination to the edge.
5 Best Practices for Preparing Data for Reports and Presentations
Key Takeaways - Performance reports and ad hoc analysis are critical to developing company strategies - securing finance's role as a business partner - Finance needs to be able to access, enrich, and apply data from across the enterprise in order to support informed decision-making - Modern tools for data preparation enable finance to create information-rich reports faster, easier, and on a repeatable basis
Top Priorities for Tech & Service Providers: Leadership Vision for 2021
Technology and service providers need to prepare for a set of external forces that will impact their markets, their clients and their organization in the coming years. These forces emerge from changing customer demand, shifting industry dynamics, emerging technology and trends, challenges from new (and old) entrants, disruptive business models and geopolitics. Download our e-book to uncover the trends and challenges facing your role as a product manager.
5 BEST PRACTICES OF HIGH PERFORMING FINANCE LEADERS
Learn the secrets of high-performing CFOs who are changing the role of finance into forward-thinking strategy and consulting
Future Ready with SaaS Management
Uncover 5 ways that VMware vRealize Cloud Management and vRealize Cloud Universal give infrastructure, cloud, and operational teams a proven way to make cloud your business.
THE LEARNING SUPPLY CHAIN
The shift to ecommerce and faster, cheaper delivery has meant exponential growth in orders and shipments. The added complexity in the supply chain is now too much for humans to make optimised decisions. Machine learning can take these vast amounts of data and turn them into improved, end-to-end operations.
Align Salesforce with your enterprise quality strategy to deliver safer, faster updates
The following white paper shares best practices for building a modern testing strategy that will accelerate the delivery of Salesforce updates.
Planning Deconstructed: 5 Types of Planning Crucial to Delivering on Strategy with a Dynamic and Continuous Approach
The purpose of this paper is to outline different planning types and what a more continuous and agile approach to planning looks like. Assess your capabilities across each type and determine your organization’s maturity level. You’ll understand what it takes to create plans that enable you to continuously connect strategy to delivery
THE RETAILER’S GUIDE: SEVEN KEY STRATEGIES TO GROW YOUR PROFITS
In this white paper, we explore seven key strategies that organizations have used to improve their results and show you how to use them to your company’s advantage. Ranging from top-line revenue-oriented actions to regulatory burden management to simple cost-cutting tips, these strategies will help you free up scarce resources, maximize your company’s strengths and grow your profits in 2019. Each strategy is accompanied by a case study that brings the ideas to life.
The IT Roadmap for Digital Business Transformation
From our expert research and interactions with thousands of companies in a wide range of industries, we’ve compiled digital business transformation best practices into a customizable roadmap. Your organization can use this roadmap to understand the key stages, resources and people required to plan and execute an effective digital business transformation initiative.
The IT Roadmap for Data and Analytics
The Gartner IT Roadmap for Data and Analytics is based on unbiased research and interactions with thousands of organizations across all industries and sectors. Data and analytics leaders can execute a smart, effective data and analytics initiative by following best practices detailed in the roadmap.
Finding the Best WAN Edge Solution for Your Enterprise
SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) can help enterprises improve application performance, lower WAN costs, and strengthen business continuity. But as you consider deploying SD-WAN, it’s important to understand the differences between solutions. Identifying which features matter to your enterprise is essential in making this selection. This paper discusses the most important considerations and outlines capabilities that separate “just okay” products from really good ones. While this paper does not compare specific products, it does include examples of features from Citrix SD-WAN, one of the leading WAN Edge solutions in the industry.
Simplify endpoint backup with Druva
Simplify endpoint data protection and reduce data risks. Improve cyber resilience and compliance, protecting enterprise workforce and data assets. Download now to see six customer stories for overcoming data protection challenges
6 Steps to Overcoming PCI DSS Compliance Challenges in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments
This eBook examines the challenges inherent in achieving continuous PCI DSS compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid landscapes and what to look for in evaluating solutions and service providers that can address those complexities.
HOW TO LEVERAGE COMPLIANCE AS A TOOL to Shape Your Company Culture
In this ebook, look at how these public compliance failures have spotlighted the impact that compliance can have on company culture. Along with building your culture, we also want to help you focus on the most important asset of your organization — your people.
Process Excellence for Frictionless Finance - How Finance departments can optimize processes for the outcomes that matter
Download our eBook to find out how Process Mining can help different finance functions optimize their processes to achieve the outcomes they want
Litigation Management: Four Ways to Improve Your Approach
Four strategies that can guide companies’ litigation-prevention approaches.
Food and Beverage Traceability
Understanding food and beverage Understanding food and beverage manufacturing compliance and traceabilitycompliance and traceability
The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2020 - The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
This report shows how each provider measures up and helps risk and compliance professionals select the right one for their needs.
The Future of Work Compendium
Why technology, innovation, and automation continue to drive the future of work and why securing the right talent is more important than managing headcount and costs
Design Systems Handbook
Learn how you can create your design system and help your team improve product quality while reducing design debt.
Five Critical Requirements for Internal Firewalling in the Data Center
This white paper explains the difference between traditional perimeter firewalls and purpose-built, software-based internal firewalls, and why the latter is best suited to protecting today’s modern workloads.
SUSE Enables the Promise of SAP S/4HANA
SUSE enables the promise of SAP S/4HANA by delivering SAP applications faster, easier, and with lower risk — onpremises and in the cloud.
Next-gen CCM: Take a Complex Document and Make It Simple
Learn more about how to ensure your complex documents meet the expectations of today’s digitally empowered consumer.
GO MAINSTREAM WITH SD-WAN: MIGRATION BEST PRACTICES
Understand the best practices that will simplify your move to SD-WAN.
Optimize your network for a cloud-first world
Read this e-book to learn how a unified app-delivery strategy can help you increase IT efficiency and reduce security risks.
The Big Makeover : How Digital Transformation is Changing the Face of Canadian Manufacturing
How Digital Transformation is Changing the Face of Canadian Manufacturing
Guide to Building a Secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) Program
Find out what is Identity Access Management, the barriers and the challenges
The Claim Game: Why expense reporting is broken (and how to fix it)
Discover how innovative new technologies are eliminating time-consuming manual processes while surfacing data and insights to make informed decisions that drive business growth.
Finance Disrupted
Workday commissioned a survey of industry finance and IT leaders across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand to examine not only the impact of the global pandemic on businesses and specific industries, but also the future trends and opportunities they see...
Discovering Diamanti for Data Analytics
A better understanding of both how and why Diamanti, a purpose-built platform for Kubernetes, is also an exceptional fit for Splunk.
Workforce(Mis)management is Expensive
Digital Solutions for 7 Common Workforce Problems That Affect an Organisation’s Bottom Line
Why Enterprises Need Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI Platforms
Delivering results with Artificial Intelligence
10 Companies Using Platforms and Ecosystems to Succeed- How you can too
This eBook explores 10 companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP, that are using platforms and ecosystems to drive revenue, deliver a better customer experience, and set themselves apart in today's highly competitive digital economy.
Knowledge Management Buyer’s Guide
There are many things to consider when searching for the right knowledge management system (KMS).
Five things every business needs to know about GDPR
This white paper explains in detail five things that every company should know about GDPR.
A Day in the Life : How Automation Is Changing Field Service
This ebook looks at some of the inefficiencies of traditional field service, then highlights how AI-driven automation can help field teams work smarter and more efficiently.
THE RISE OF MACHINE LEARNING IN CYBERSECURITY
Explains machine learning (ML) technology — what it is, how it works and why it offers better protection against the sophisticated attacks that bypass standard security measures.
How to drive action through storytelling
In this ebook, we share how you can use data to craft a compelling story, deliver key insights, and motivate your audience.
How to Stop payment Fraud with Financial Controls
Learn how organizations implement AP Automation to reduce payments fraud
SaaS Finance Leaders: 5 Steps to Drive Your Company from Early to Growth Stage
This e-book explains the five steps SaaS leaders can take to drive the business from early to growth stage
Ironclad Software Guide for Improved Operational Efficiency
Reduce risk, and increase productive with greater contract management insight and oversight
Now Tech: Digital Intelligence Technologies, Q2 2019
Customer insights (CI) professionals should use Forrester's Now Tech report to understand the value they can expect from a digital intelligence technology provider and select vendors based on size and functionality.
Four Ways SaaS Vendors Can Tell They’re Ready to Launch a Partner Program
How can you tell if the time is right for your software business to launch a partner network program?
Disruptive Customer Engagement
With each passing year, just as in the CRM market, the shift towards cloud that is happening will rise…
The future of XM
The next decade will require a pivotal transformation from traditional customer experience (CX) metrics to modern experience management (XM) programs.
Improve Productivity with Box and Office 365
Organizations across are relying on Box and Office 365 to get a consolidated content layer to improve productivity, collaboration, security, and compliance.
LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Five important categories of policy development to consider through a legal lens in and after a pandemic
